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Following a shameful home loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night, Juwan Howard went all Joe Pesci in Goodfellas on the Portland locker room. Guess it worked.

The Blazers surprised everyone in the basketball world by rolling into Phoenix last night and dispatching the Suns by a score of 108-101. The victory was Portland's first win in Phoenix in over six years, and concludes a hectic first half of the season for the injury-depleted Blazers. The team gets nearly a week off for the mid-season break, while Brandon Roy heads to Texas. He will not play in this weekend's All-Star game, but league rules insist that he must attend the game. A forced trip to Dallas instead of spending time with his family and rehabbing his hamstring injury. Lucky him.

The Blazers will be back in action at home against the Clippers on Tuesday.